Before posting in support of a guy begging for money on a charity site, you may want to do a little research first.

Geoff Beckett has ripped off employees, business partners, comic creators, and customers.He's a notorious internet tough guy, threatening to sue anyone that doesn't publish glowing praise for everything he does.This has all been documented for years.Check out his wikipedia page to start. Check out the discussions at Bleeding Cool and the Fwoosh. Check out the Shocker Toys Better Business Bureau entry.

This guy does not deserve your money.

GBJR Toys is the same company as Shocker Toys with just a new name. There is no record of Shocker Toys being dissolved as a company. There is no record of the creation of a company called GBJR Toys.It's the same guy running the same scams he has been running for the last dozen years.

There are many oddities concerning the photo you linked to:#1- as pointed out by Megazarak at the Fwoosh, the figure below the middle top figure still has a Shocker Toys logo on it.

#2- there seems to be an excessive amount of space on the sides of the figures that I wouldn't expect from a box coming from a factory.

#3- I've never opened a case of anything that had the items stacked like that instead of being side by side.

#4- The lid flaps don't look like they have ever been bent to have closed the top of the box.

This isn't a case of product fresh off the boat from the factory in China. It's a mock up of such a case, made to fool people into thinking Geoff is running a legitimate company. It's a bunch of old product with new inserts, placed in a box he bought at Office Depot or wherever.

Geoff Beckett/Shocker Toys/GBJR Toys is a scam.

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Also a huge caution in regards to gofundme: It is a donation site. There is no legal obligation to deliver on anything that is promised as a reward. If you donate to Geoff expecting something in return, chances are that you will never see anything, neither the product nor your money, ever again. It is not like Kickstarter. Once donated, your money is gone, regardless of the goal being met or not.

Notice that Geoff promises that all of the rewards, even the ones that he should already have in hand, "will ship once campaign ends." However, there is no stated end to the campaign. If he reaches the first goal, there are another 4 or 5 stretch goals, all the way up to $85,000, over 3x the original. It is never going to end. People are most likely never getting what they paid for.

Not only does he still owe people a mail away premium figure from 2008, he stood there at Comicon in 2010, lying to my face, asking us to pay for exclusives that were "stuck in customs", and he'd ship them to us in a week or 2. Folks are still trying in vain to get refunds. I don't donate to for for-profit companies, especially those who stole money from friends. My favorite moment was when he was served a lawsuit by an artist he owed money to at his own panel at Comicon 2011. Do a little research, you'll save yourself some money and aggravation. Keep in kind, he's been showing these prototypes for over three years now.

I'm curious to see what happens with all of this. Luckily I really don't want anything he's pushing since I already have the "Shocker Toys" Tick, but I'd like to see if maybe he actually releases things this time and doesn't rip off lots of people.

When on rare occasion things do get made, it's always in service of the long con. Trickle a little out to establish a veneer of legitimacy, then it's easier to get others to "donate" $10,000 to get their comic character made into a toy. He releases a Tick, and it leads to one or two people posting on boards about how they got theirs so all the scam talk is bs. It's used as cover for not delivering on tons of other product he has taken money for, such as the figures Captain Collector mentioned.

Here's a scan of the flyer Geoff was giving out at the 2010 SDCC:http://twitpic.com/5ttuuwThis was openly, publicly distributed at SDCC as Geoff tried to drum up sales for things he knew he didn't and wouldn't have (because it never existed). When it was posted after the con, Geoff repeatedly had it taken down from pic hosting sites for copyright infringement. Everything he does is sketchy.

Geoff was also taking money for Indie Spotlight series 2 at that con. Out of all that product "sold", only the Tick figure ever got made.

Start adding things up.200,000+ people at SDCC.Tons of product "sold."Nothing ever delivered.Where does all the money go?Well, Geoff proudly tweeted this pic from SDCC:http://twitpic.com/5ttuuwThat's Geoff and friends on his way to a party he sponsored at a strip club. That's where your money will end up if you "donate" to Geoff's fake charity; in the g-string of a stripper. (My mistake. I see Geoff prefers a full nude strip club.)

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It's a common misconception to think that other companies couldn't make figures of any of the properties that Geoff pretends he is going to release.

- Lots of Geoff's licenses are public domain. Anyone can make toys of those characters. Example: Golden Age Daredevil

- Geoff has never had exclusive deals for anything. That's why it was so funny when LCBH came out with characters that Geoff thought he had sewn up. Example: Madman

- There's a good chance that Geoff himself doesn't even have the rights to most of the figures he has announced.--- Most of his agreements were made so long ago that they have long since expired. Example: Jack Staff--- Others, he announced just hoping that the announcement would convince the creator to let him have the license. Example: Invincible and Robert Kirkman

- And the rest of his licenses, frankly, no one outside of the creator and his/her friends and family give a shingbling about. Example: Laserman

If you would like toys of any of the characters Geoff is supposedly making, don't bother waiting for him. Contact the license holder and let them know directly. Contact companies and let them know what you would like. It may seem like a long shot, but it's still way more likely than Geoff actually getting around to making them.

Better yet, get a hold of a decent, reputable customizer and have them make it. You'll have to pay more than Geoff's fairy tale pricing, most likely, but you'll get it faster. It'll look better. And you'll get an actual figure instead of excuses.

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I think he was even on AFI at one point, arguing about how everything being said about him was a bunch of lies. Never mind all the many MANY links above showing clearly that at the VERY least there's a serious problem, if not an outright scam going on.